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Mysterious Bitcoin startup 21 Inc. comes out of stealth with $116 million in investment
21 Inc., an otherwise yet unknown Bitcoin industry company, just emerged from stealth to announce $116 million in venture capital funding. Although it has stopped being so secretive and it has a lot of funding, it’s still hard to tell what 21 does exactly. Even its CEO and co-founder, Matthew Pauker, has been cryptic about ...
Rejoice PC players: Minecraft doesn’t need Java installed anymore
Mojang AB, developer of Minecraft, has changed the block-based sandbox creative game so that it no longer requires Java to run. This will come as a relief to many users who enjoy playing Minecraft on PCs and would rather not suffer with the strange, arcane installation needs of Java and the potential insecurity that it ...
ESL announces mobile app for Katowice Intel Extremes Masters esports competition
If you’re an esports enthusiast going to Katowice, Poland to watch the Intel Extremes Masters Expo and ESL One tournaments this March 12-15 and you own a smartphone you are in for a treat. The esports gaming league ESL (Electronic Sports League) just released a mobile app for Apple and Android that will keep you up ...
Sunday marks the first annual Bitcoin Women’s Day
This upcoming Sunday, March 8th, 2015, will be the first annual Bitcoin Women’s Day, an event designed to highlight and promote the accomplishments of women within the Bitcoin community. The event takes place on the same day as International Women’s Day, which has been around since the 1900s and is a recognized holiday by the ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2015 March 4: BIT gets FINRA approval, Electrum Wallet 2.0, Bitcoin legislation ahoy, Coinbase updates
This week (or month at least) more U.S. states are noticing Bitcoin with proposed bills in Utah and New Hampshire appearing to look into allowing government taxes and fees paid in bitcoins, with New York State also appears to be following suit. The Bitcoin Investment Trust, a private investment firm that holds BTC in trust ...
Steam reveals Source 2, Steam Link, and SteamVR | #GDC2015
Valve Corporation took to Game Developers Conference (GDC 2015) like a fish to water and has announced a whole slew of new products and services. Amidst them the Source 2 engine, successor to the Source engine used in Valve games such as Half-Life 2, Steam Link, a small device for in-home game streaming, and SteamVR, ...
Infographic: Black Lotus report reveals DDoS is common, leads to customer churn
In 2014, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks continued to be a massive concern for numerous Internet services. This was especially signaled by the Christmas Day siege of Xbox Live and PlayStation Network by infamous Internet mayhem crew Lizard Squad. A survey by DDoS attack mitigation service Black Lotus shows that while DDoS attacks have become ...
OpenGL successor Vulkan will level up the gaming industry
A successor to OpenGL, the open source graphics library that stands as a direct rival to Microsoft’s DirectX 12 library and Apple’s Metal, has been named by The Khronos Group, a consortium of schools and businesses tasked with maintaining OpenGL and OpenCL. That name is “Vulkan” and the new open source 2D and 3D graphics ...
PC gaming market expected to exceed $35 billion by 2018 says OGA report
The Open Gaming Alliance (OGA) announced plans to release an annual research report on the games industry at the end of March. This report contends that PC gaming is not just a growing industry, it’s an ever-expanding market that will grow from $26 billion in 2014 to $35 billion by 2018. The report, prepared for ...
How advanced camera options will help Guild Wars 2 players on March 10th
Last week, ArenaNet, Inc. announced that advanced camera options would be coming to its massively multiplayer online (MMO) game title Guild Wars 2 on March 10th. These options include a first person view as well as sliders permitting players to adjust camera distance, offset, and field of view. Since launch, GW2 has followed a fairly ...